It’s taken me a while to write Bannor’s birth story…a whole year! I had high expectations that it would match the truly beautiful, pain-free, supernatural birth I had with Ellyson back in 2012. It wasn’t until I did more research on babies being born “in the caul” that I was able to adjust my […]
As soon as we found out we were pregnant with Ellyson, we knew we wanted to pursue a different route than the hospital birth of our son Zane. We had watched the Business of Being Born a few times and knew that we wanted a midwife to deliver our second child. We were blessed to […]
Hello friends! Kale Before Cupcakes has been on a 6 month hiatus since I had my son on September 2, 2014. Frankly, it might still be on hiatus, if not for an issue that keeps nagging at my heart, and that I simply must write about. Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last […]
Welcome to Worship Wednesday, hosted by myself and my friend Vanessa at Happy Days at Home. I’m writing this at 41 weeks, 6 days pregnant. Today, I luckily managed to have a very sweet quiet time with God this morning….maybe one of my last for awhile! My husband had taken my son to school, […]
Mark Harris (formerly of 4HIM) sang this during graduation season at our church last spring, and had both my husband and I bawling – and our kids are nowhere near graduating…in fact, our oldest son is barely starting kinder this year! The message of this song has stuck with me all summer, and I realized […]
So I’m a bit behind on participating in “World Breastfeeding Week” (Aug 1-7), but August is still National Breastfeeding Month, so I figure I still have time to jump on the bandwagon and share the story of my two breastfeeding experiences so far, because I haven’t read many like mine, and I hope my […]
Today is Worship Wednesday, hosted by myself and my friend Vanessa at Happy Days at Home. We started Worship Wednesdays as a way to uplift you in the middle of the week, and hopefully you’ll discover some wonderful new songs to add to your playlists! In honor of their recently announced engagement, today’s Worship […]
In the long term, we plan on homeschooling our children. With baby #3 arriving in the next few weeks though, we’ve decided to enroll our 5 year old son Zane in Kindergarten for at least this first semester. We think the routine and structure will be good for him (not to mention the fun he’ll have!) […]
I’ve been really struggling with getting this blog going, because I don’t feel qualified. I don’t feel witty or confident. I read lots of other blogs and those writers all seem to have it together. They are so organized! They make awesome food. They do awesome crafts with their kids every day. Their houses are […]
I’m going to make Mondays “Motivation Mondays” because I believe God has called each one of us to a special purpose and a calling, and sometimes we get so wrapped up in the everyday things of life that we can lose sight of that and we can get discouraged. There are SO many motivational speakers […]